Saturday, October 25, 2008

My Russian is rubbish

6 comments:

Marc Datz(Ukrainian Greek Catholic)(US)
said...

I think it says below the arms of the crucifix: "Christ is Risen, death by death conquered and those in the grave life everlasting granted and for us believers also granted!" Part of the old Slavic world's Easter hymn/message. I was able to discern the 'Christ is Risen' under the arms of the cross and the words 'death' and 'life'. So it is possibly the famous Slavic Easter hymn/message under the cross arms!?! You picture is not that clear when it comes to the writing.

Would that it were straight up Russian! It's Old Church Slavonic. A cursory look tells me it's something to do with the "Son of God" "Jesus Christ" and Him being Resurrected - "Voskresennie" [or my transliteration of it.] It's nice that in Russian the word "Sunday" is itself related to the word "Resurrection."

Many thanks Gregory, I am very grateful. Do you know who the monk and bishop are, the inscriptions are unclear. I presume they are Basil and Chrysostom, and that the icon is ultimately about the Liturgy. I only acquired it recently and haven't started praying it, if that is not too pretentious.

The text on the icon has a strong parallel with a text in the old Roman Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday: 'Crucem tuam adoramus, Domine: et sanctam resurrectionem tuam laudamus et glorificamus.'

Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna

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